2004 Charleston Antiques Symposium to Open on Kiawah

Charleston Antiques Symposium The College of Charleston presents the 2004 Charleston Antiques Symposium March 17-21. Scholars, collectors and other experts will join connoisseurs and novices for the seventh annual event on the College of Charleston campus, in private homes and historic venues. The opening day will be held on Kiawah Island. The theme will be "Charleston, the South and the Caribbean Connection." Among the speakers are Peter Kenny, the curator of American Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Michael Connors, an antiques dealer and author, will also speak about the link between the decorative arts of Caribbean and the South. Lydia Pulsipher, a professor at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and an expert on Montserrat, will speak about slave communities on a sugar plantation on Montserrat, linking them to the Lowcountry's slave communities. The schedule also includes Robert Russell, director of the Historic Preservation and Community Planning Program at the college's School of the Arts. Admission to individual sessions is available. For more information call Michael W. Haga at (843) 953-7766; e-mail HAGAM@COFC.EDU or visit the Web site at http://www.cofc.edu/sota/symposium Concerto winners to perform Winners of the Hilton Head Youth Orchestra's Concerto Competition will perform in concert with the Hilton Head Orchestra on Feb. 8. Among them are: * Mallory Hamm, who will perform "Romance" for violin by Dvorak; * Kristy Chu, performing the Piano Concerto in D minor by Mendelssohn; * Chelsea Ward, playing a movement of the Violin Concerto by Bruch; * Brendan Polk, with the Haydn Piano Concerto in G; * James Burch, performing the first movement of the Concerto for Cello in A minor by Saint-Saens; * Angelica Zhang, playing the first movement of Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto; * Adam Steiner, playing Mozart's Third Horn Concerto.

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